Through the poems If and The Road Not Taken, composed by Rudyard Kipling and Robert Frost respectively, both contemplate the future of one’s identity. Kipling utilises the title of his poem, personification and repetition of similar dialogue to “If you can dream -and not make dreams your master,” to look into the future of the described man. Kipling is describing characteristics of a man and basically saying, ‘if you do… you will be a man in the future.’ Similarly, Frost uses the metaphor to create imagery of “two roads,” to illustrate the choices you make, defines the future of your identity. People are often faced with two choices or “two roads,” which both have different outcomes. Both poems also discuss the idea of ‘the world is what you
